He adds gun sales at his two stores accounted for about ten per cent of Virginia's record gun sales on Black Friday. Cochran says gun sales will increase every week until christmas.

"It's a perfect Christmas gift. A lot of fellows have planned all year and all they want for christmas is a new firearm. Firearms are relatively expensive and a very good investment," says Cochran.

Another factor driving the increase in gun sales is politics, but specifically in Virginia it's state politics.

"There's been a lot of gun talk this whole year. We've just had a new election with a new governor that's leaning to be anti-gun in Virginia so all that spurs business just a little bit," says Cochran.

"I don't think as law enforcement we're as worried about the legal sales as we are the after. They belong to the owners but what happens to them then like the thefts and the use even by someone else in the home," says Chief Cundiff.

"Everybody that brought a gun on Black Friday went through a criminal and mental background check in Virginia and passed it," says Cochran.

Cochran says gun sales from Black Friday this year are up 30 per cent compared with Black Friday last year.

As of Monday, gun transactions totaled 431,693. The record is 432,387 set in 2012.

John Wilson/KSL-TV/Deseret News via AP). This frame from video shows the scene of a small plane that crashed into a house in Payson, Utah, on Monday, Aug 13, 2018. Authorities said the pilot was killed in the crash.

A Utah man flew a small plane into his own house early Monday just hours after he had been arrested for assaulting his wife in a nearby canyon where the couple went to talk over their problems, authorities said.

A Utah man flew a small plane into his own house early Monday just hours after he had been arrested for assaulting his wife in a nearby canyon where the couple went to talk over their problems, authorities said.